Hess Pit Metal/Non-Metal
Hess Services Inc.
· Surface
Controlled by
Daniel Lawrence Hess; Lisa Hess
Antonio,
Ellis County,
KS
·
Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1401794
Hess Pit has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 0
- Years on record
- —
- Latest incident
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
52
citations
19
significant & substantial
$26,653
proposed penalties
$24,681
paid to date
93% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,972 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
21
inspections on record
261
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Rate withheld: 261 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Hess Pit has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$27K
proposed penalties
$25K
current assessed
$25K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
52 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-24.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
See also
the operator's enforcement record
Quarterly safety rates
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Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q4 | 724 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q3 | 846 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 946 | 4 | 1 | 4228.3 |
| 2025 Q1 | 627 | 2 | 1 | 3189.8 |
| 2024 Q4 | 1,016 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q3 | 406 | 3 | 2 | 7389.2 |
| 2024 Q2 | 1,091 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q1 | 1,129 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Q4 | 1,208 | 4 | 1 | 3311.3 |
| 2023 Q3 | 1,579 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q2 | 1,202 | 3 | 0 | 2495.8 |
| 2023 Q1 | 1,275 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q4 | 975 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q3 | 1,589 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q2 | 917 | 2 | 0 | 2181.0 |
| 2022 Q1 | 1,208 | 3 | 2 | 2483.4 |
| 2021 Q4 | 1,190 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q3 | 1,312 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q2 | 1,309 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q1 | 1,014 | 12 | 4 | 11834.3 |
| 2020 Q4 | 885 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q3 | 1,030 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q2 | 1,428 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2020 Q1 | 309 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q4 | 658 | 11 | 3 | 16717.3 |
| 2019 Q3 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q2 | 132 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2019 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018 Q3 | 160 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2018 Q2 | 103 | 2 | 1 | 19417.5 |
| 2018 Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
No reportable incidents on file.
MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.
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The full compliance file on Hess Pit
A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.